Wine in the Ancient World

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"Academically rather useless - it's from 1957 and by a British gentleman with corresponding ideals and views about the world, a fact that you absolutely cannot miss - but highly entertaining and pleasurable to read as a general book about the subject, while bearing in mind that a lot of the information is rather biased or dated. Some highlights: "Far be it from me, however, to deny that the “respectable” women of Athens had a tendency to drink too much. This did not apply to the hetairai, th"